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Native societies and Spanish empire in the 16th-century American Southeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jerald T. Milanich
Jerald T. Milanich*
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Department of Anthropology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Museum Road, Gainesville FL 32611, USA
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But from what nation did those ancients derive their origin? How numerous were they? How long did they occupy these regions? When, and by what means, were they exterminated? Would they have lost the well known arts, especially agriculture, pottery and salt making – arts so easy to preserve, and so necessary? And to imagine that the whole people became extinct by pestilence, or some other awful catastrophe, is an extravagant hypothesis, not supported by any precedent in the annals of mankind. M. FISKE (1820: 305, 307)

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 250 , March 1992 , pp. 140 - 152
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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